Ultimate TinyMCE “Visual Editor Upgrade”

Let me begin by admitting I hardly ever use the visual editor in WordPress when creating my blog posts and pages. I prefer the HTML editor. With that being said, I do a lot of work for people who only use the visual editor on their sites. Often, I get asked how to make certain text a different color, or how to add a background color, or how to insert a page anchor. If this sounds like you, then you should absolutely take a look at the following plugin!

I wrote this plugin for those people who prefer using the visual editor. This plugin will add extreme formatting power and options to the buttons in the “Visual” mode when creating posts or pages.

Advanced Add-ons:

I also develop advanced add-ons designed to integrate with my Ultimate TinyMCE Plugin (although they do work individually as well). These add-ons will give you advanced control over certain features of the tinymce editor in WordPress.

Ultimate Tinymce Advanced Configuration

The tinymce editor for WordPress can be expanded and customized far beyond what’s available with the default installation. I have dedicated most of my time to working with the editor, and finding ways to improve it’s functionality. One problem I continuously encounter, is the settings for the editor… how do I know what each person will want?

This plugin will allow an advanced customization of the editor. It can be used with or without my Ultimate Tinymce plugin… although the customization options are GREATLY increased when using with Ultimate Tinymce.

Ultimate Google Webfonts

This add-on will allow you to select any number of Google Webfonts from their website, and import them for use in your wordpress site. A truly “one-step” process to import any number of selected fonts. This plugin is better than any other out there because of these three reasons combined:

It adds the font to the front end of your site.

It adds the font in the editor window so you actually see what you get.

It adds the name of the font, as well as a preview, in the font selector dropdown box.

Ultimate Custom Styles

This add-on will allow you to add predefined custom styles into the style select dropdown button in the visual editor. Your clients will love the ability to choose custom styles from a dropdown list, rather than mucking about in HTML and CSS.

Additional Resources:

Max Foundry has written an amazing tutorial for adding Google Webfonts to other, “Custom”, instances of the TinyMCE editor. You can check his guide HERE.

Kenneth Odle has created a sample page showing some of the features of this plugin in action; his page can be found HERE.

Robert Reilly has shown us an excellent example using this plugins “page anchors” feature. Check out the webpage HERE. Note the floating div container on the right-hand side of your screen as you scroll down the page. Very cool!!

Support Forums:

My page and my inbox are beginning to get a lot of comments and help requests regarding this plugin. So, I have set up a support forum to help with this plugin, and also to help with wordpress in general. Please go check it out for additional help and resources:

Testimonials:

I spent all last night playing with your Tinymce plugin. What a joy! Boy, have I been doing things the hard way! I loved your tooltips for the different settings. Not only were they informative, but fun! You seemed like a real “person” – not a “manual” of difficult to understand techie language! Bravo for an awesome plugin – I will certainly share it with others! I only regret having worked so long without it!

Misty Paradise, CA

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Hi Josh, this is for everyone out there who is in a panic over losing their Ultimate TinyMCE buttons from their WordPress Editor, “seeing” hidden buttons or missing rows after they updated to WordPress 3.9 or above. After I myself recovered from my anxiety attack, I decided to open the Ultimate TinyMCE details page and saw these magic words, “Note: The end of Ultimate TinyMCE. This plugin will not work properly on WordPress versions 3.9 and above.” Then, of course, came the “OH Nooooo!” Further reading gave me a solution. INSTALL WP EDIT PLUGIN. I followed all the instructions, I deactivated the Ultimate TinyMCE and now all of the buttons are back in place, the invisible buttons are visible and all of the rows have reappeared. I’ve tested with some content and so far the new plugin seems to be working fine. I haven’t tested for conflicts with any other plugins yet. One question, should I DELETE the Ultimate Tiny MCE plugin?

LUV your plugins!!! Thanks for your patience with some of us who panic first, research later. I’m guilty of sending you an email on this one (haven’t heard from you, Ha!). Sorry and disregard the email!

HEY JOSH
Excellent plugin and I depend on it for important features like image maps and the CSS editing button. But unfortunately the recent update to WordPress 3.9 which I installed today has most of the functions broken for your plugin which makes me very angry with the developers. When can we expect an update? Please advise.